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Lettere Patent No. 691,131, dated September 24, 1857; antedate' September 12, 1867.

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TO ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, N. MENDAL SHAIER, of New York, county and State of New Yorlqhavo made a certain invention, which I call a Blotter-Holder; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Y Figure 1 represents an elevation of my invention, red iines showing the blotter.

Figure 2 is an end view, red outlines showing the blotter. 4

Figure 3 shows an' elevation of another modification of my invention.

Figure 4 represents the instrument shown in iigs. 1 and 2 as applied to a book.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several gures.

The object of my invention is to produce an instrument by means of which blotters are readily fastened to the inside of books and readily taken oil` and moved to another place in the same.

The nature of my invention consists, `first, in means for holding the blotter to the instrument; second, in means for securing the instrument to the book.

To en able others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same by the aid of the accompanying drawings.

A, figs. 1, 2,.and 3, is a strip ot' baud iron, tin, brass, or any otherb suitable material, folded double, as clearly shown in iig. 2; it is prepared of about the length of the book to which it is to be applied. B is a plain plate, cut out in the shape represented plainly in fig. 1, having the two ends turned downward at right angles, so as to protrude almost behind the back of the book to which it is to be applied. In one of these ends is drilled a hole, C; the other, D, is bent over, as clearly shown in fig. 2. A wire, F, is hooked in the hole C, passed through between the back and spring-back of the book, as shown in iig. 4; it then hooks into the bend at D. The wire F is bent at E, soas to catch over the turned-down end of B; by these means the instrument is secured to the book. The blotter to be secured is turned over or folded, as shown in red lines in iig. 2, and placed in piece A. B is now pressed into this fold of the blotter and that of A; by these-means the blotter is secured to the instrument. Fig. 3 is a modification of my instrument, more especially designed to be used in such books which have no spring-back. It is arranged so as to be secured over the back of the books. The wire is replaced by two pieces of wire, G Gr, with suitable hooks at their ends. Interposed between is a piece Yof elastic cord, H, which can stretch, and thereby adjust itself so as to be suited to almost any width of book.

My instrument is operated in the following manner: The blotter is folded at the edge introduced in piece A, and secured in the latter by piece B, as clearly shown. The 'wire F is now introduced in the spa-ce between back and spring-back ofthe book, as shown in fig. 4; then the pieces A and B are pnt between the leaves where the blotter is to be used, and the wire introduced into the bend D of piece B, whereby the former is secured to the latter, and the whole firmly secured to the book. It is readily understood that to turn a leaf you loosen B from the wire, turn B up at right angles, turn the leaf, and bring back B and secure it again to the wire.

vHaving now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows: I 1. The mode of securing a blotter to a frame, and the latter to a book, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination of bent plate A, plate B, hole C, wire F, hool D, and bond E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3'. The employment of the elastic cord Il, or its equivalent, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. p l

N. MENDAL SHAFER..

Witnesses:

EMIL Vossmcn, A. HORMANN. 

